Lots of RAM :)

[feeef]

I made my long time dream come true! I have maxed out my 9500 with 12 128MB sticks.
 
One of them is a little different but it has the exact same specs as the others so it should be well interleaved. 
 
I opened the applications I use the most with plenty of RAM and still have some room for more!
 
It now take 3 minutes to do a full RAM check before starting up.
 
 

 

 

 

[Unknown_K]

I think I tried that once but 768MB was all I could find for an 8500 (8 slots, had 2x64 and the rest 128MB). Its hard to find that type of RAM cheap anymore. 

 

[MJ313]

$6 a pop at OWC...

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/5MD128MBG/

 

[feeef]

Yep, I got them from OWC!

It feels weird to have more RAM in that 1995 computer than in my Powerbook G4!  

 

[Unknown_K]

Wow, didn't know it was that cheap, ordered 4 to test them out.

 

[johnklos]

Yeah, it's pretty neat that a computer from 1995 / 1996 / 1997 can take so much memory:

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

NetBSD 5.2_STABLE (ANDROMEDA-$Revision: 5.2Y $) #0: Tue Dec 31 21:31:39 UTC 2013
john@andromeda.ziaspace.com:/usr/obj-macppc/sys/arch/macppc/compile/ANDROMEDA
total memory = 1536 MB

Mine's a 1997 PowerMac 9600 and has been running as a server with 1.5 gigabytes of memory without any problems since 2000 or so.

EDIT: Stupid site formatting doesn't know how to look like the editor.

 

[NJRoadfan]

Pop in a G4 card and one of those 10krpm SCSI drives and run OS X 10.4 . My 8600 runs it pretty well with just 256MB installed. I have more RAM of various sizes laying around, but the machine was never stable with it for some reason. Just the two 128MB OWC DIMMs seem to work right.

 

[feeef]

I am amazed to see a 9600 maxed out still running as a server today! 1.5GB was a lot of RAM in 2000.

@NJRoadfan, I have an SSD drive on that mac. It also had a G4 card but I downgraded to the G3 because it wasn't handling the SATA card correctly. I prefer using System 7 on that Mac because it is the fastest system I can run on it and it does everything I need. I still use it every day as a drawing / animating station for my work. For OS X / modern stuff, I use a Mac Pro and for PPC stuff I have a Powerbook G4. 

 

[Unknown_K]

RAM came in today. I was surprised it came in individual retail looking cardboard/plastic packaging (like you would find hanging on a hook at a retail store). Mine does say EDO on it (which I think is slightly more expensive) when I ordered FPM.